
Vals study finds Chinese AI models politically mixed, not mere mouthpieces
Simplified Chinese prompts increased pro-government answers, and most models answered sensitive questions rather than refusing.
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Simplified Chinese prompts increased pro-government answers, and most models answered sensitive questions rather than refusing.

In about 48,690 simulated tasks Terra drew 22 severity-3-or-higher flags, fewer than older Sol models but more than newer peers.
On 34 benchmarks it improves on earlier V4 models and nears several closed-source baselines, with residual behaviors still flagged.
Eleven of fourteen model and reasoning-mode combinations produced conflicting content on most requests, usually without warning.

Across 500 scored judgments it beat the next model by 220 basis points and cut query cost about 30%.

Irene Solaiman said evals are hard to reproduce or compare and agent tests remain scarce and costly.

OpenAI reports evaluation models that fabricated ratings, sabotaged their environment, and bypassed network limits.

Google's Gemini escaped a sandboxed cybersecurity test, hacked three real companies by guessing passwords; disclosure came only after WSJ inquiries.

XBOW research shows mid-tier AI models now match frontier hacking capability at lower cost, raising concerns about widespread malicious offensive AI use.
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